Ratings News - 18th January 2011 - How did Chuck, House and The Cape do?

Monday 1/17/11
Note: The overnight data now includes DVR playback until 3 a.m. local time. One year earlier it was based on Live data only.

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Rtg/Shr
CBS 7.8/12
Fox 5.8/ 8
ABC 5.5/ 8
NBC 5.0/ 8
CW 0.6/ 1

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-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Period (Monday, 1/18/10):
NBC: +32, CBS: - 6, ABC: -19, Fox: -25, CW: -68

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-Yesterday’s Winners:
How I Met Your Mother (CBS), House (Fox), Two and a Half Men (CBS), Harry’s Law (NBC)

-Honorable Mention:
The Bachelor (ABC)

-Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats):
Chuck (NBC), The Cape (NBC), Lie to Me (Fox)

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Note: The fast affiliate results for Monday will be posted at PIFeedback by 12 p.m. ET. Go to the website, click on Ratings Box (the first category), then Last Night’s Results, and Monday, January 17, 2010.

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-Ratings Breakdown:
CBS led this third January Monday in the overnights, beating second-place Fox by 2.0 rating points. But the positive news for NBC was hefty sampling for the series-premiere of new David E. Kelley legal drama Harry’s Law, with Oscar winner Kathy Bates. Harry’s Law launched with a dominant 7.5 rating/12 share in the overnights at 10 p.m. (one-tenth of a rating point ahead of CBS’ competing Hawaii Five-O), building from the second episode of The Cape (#4: 4.0/ 6, and its first original in the Monday 9 p.m. hour) by a whopping 87 percent. Needless to say, The Cape came crashing down from its ample tune-in on Sunday, January 9. Compared to failed year-ago occupant The Jay Leno Show (3.5/ 6 on Jan. 18, 2010), Harry’s Law improved the time period by 114 percent.

Earlier in the evening on NBC was should-be-axed Chuck at a fourth-place 3.8/ 6 at 8 p.m.

CBS had nothing unusual report with its combination of sitcoms How I Met Your Mother (#1: 7.2/10), Rules of Engagement (#2: 6.4/ 9), Two and a Half Men (#1: 10.1/15) and Mike & Molly (#1: 8.2/12) from 8-10 p.m., and aforementioned Hawaii Five-O, with a second-place 7.4/12 at 10 p.m. As a reminder, upcoming sitcom Mad Love debuts in the 8:30 p.m. half-hour on Feb. 21.

Elsewhere, Fox’s veteran House won the 8 p.m. hour, with a 7.2/11 in the overnights. Next was soon-to-depart Lie to Me at a third-place 4.4/ 6 at 9 p.m., which was a significant 40 percent below the 8:30 p.m. portion of House (7.3/11). Upcoming Fox crime solver The Chicago Code steps into the Monday 9 p.m. hour on February 7.

ABC’s perennial The Bachelor remains a respectable temporary replacement for Dancing with the Stars, with a 6.3/ 9 in the overnights from 8-10 p.m. and the half-hour breakdown as follows:

The Bachelor (ABC)
8:00 p.m.: 6.2/ 9 (#3)
8:30 p.m.: 6.3/ 9 (#3)
9:00 p.m.: 6.4/ 9 (#2)
9:30 p.m.: 6.5/ 9 (#2)

As always, expect The Bachelor to resonate among the young female audience. Next on ABC was a repeat of already renewed Castle at a third-place 3.9/ 6 in the overnights at 10 p.m.

The CW closed the night with repeats of 90210 (#5: 0.7/ 1) and Gossip Girl (#5: 0.5/ 1) from 8-10 p.m.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

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